Westward Expansion Quiz

This law gave 160 acres of free land to those willing to claim it and work it for 5 years.

• The land act of 1900

• The Homestead Act of 1862

Former African American slaves who moved west for a better life.

• migrants

• sod busters

• Exodusters

• Emancipators

This achievement brought people, goods and supplies, and improved communications to the Grate Plains and the West.

• The telegraph

• the automobile

• the aeroplane

• the Transcontinental railroad

A technique of plowing and planting seeds deep to reach the moist soil.

• crop rotation

• dry farming

• wet farming

A food crop that grows well in the Great Plains

• wheat

• bananas

• strawberries

• avocados

What animal was essential to the survival of the Great Plains Indians?

• Coyote

• Buffalo

• Wolf

Areas of land set aside for Native Americans by the US government.

• Reservations

• Districts

• Counties

• Municipalities

What was the result of the Battle of Little Big Horn?

• Custer and his soldiers were victorious against the Sioux.

• Custer and the Sioux signed a peace agreement.

• Custer and his men were all killed by the Sioux.

Leader of the Apache Indians.

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

• Geronimo

Lead to the decline of the Native American population in the West.

• Warefare

• Disease

• Both A & B